44 THEoposiA B. SHEPHERD CoMPANY’S CATALOGUE 
TECOMA Velutina It is a most showy and valuable flowering shrub; far superior to Tecoma 
Smithii, in that it blooms when only 12 inches high from seed. The flowers are larger and a 
more beautiful color, while 
the. plant is never out of 
bloom. The flowers are 
like beautiful Allamandas ; 
large, gloxinia-like, pure 
golden yellow; in great 
splendid spikes or elusters 
It grows into a good sized 
small tree in California. 
Half hardy; easily grown 
from seed. 25e to 50e each. 
SALVIA Splendens 
grandiflora pendula. A 
beautiful variety that bears 
very long drooping spikes 
of flowers: larger and hand- 
somer than the old splen- 
dens 25e each. 
VIOLETS: 
The ground for these 
sweet flowers should be 
level, -.well cultivated and 
thoroughly mulehed with 
rotted manure or leaf mold. 
The plants should be set 
out from 1 to 2 feet apart, 
3 feet between rows, They 
require watering at least 
once a week, with an occa- 
sional sprinkling in the 
evening or early in the 
TECOMA VELUTINA. morning. 
Princess of Wales. The foliage is very handsome, the flowers are large, most exquisite 
and delicionsly fragrant, and measure 116 inches across; the color is a lovely violet-blue. The 
stems are 8 to 10 inches long. 5e¢ each; 50c doz; $3 00 per hundred. 
Marie Louise. Exquisite light double blue, very fragrant. 5c each 50c doz; $3.50 per 
hundred. | 
Swanley White. A pure white double violet exquisitely pretty and sweet. 5c each; d0e 
doz.; $3.50 per hundred. : 
VELVET PLANT. No other name would be so appropriate as Velvet Plant, for so close ts the 
resemblance that on first sight the plant is almost invariabie taken to be artificial. Its stems 
and leaves are entirely covered with glistening purple hairs, and to the touch are as soft as 
velvet. 15c to 25c each. 
RARE CLIMBING AND TRAILING PLANTS. 
We make a spacialty of rare and beautiful climbing plants all of which can be seen in fine 
specimens in our grounds, nearly all in the open ground. Many of them are hardy in the 
south, some only grow in conservatories, we have endeavored to indicate their character in our 
descriptions. 
Antigonon Leptopus, The Rosa de Montana of Mexico. A beautiful climbing plant, with 
tuberous roots; produces freely large racemes of rose-pink flowers of the most exquisite color; 
leaves heart-shaped. It is a magnificent vine for the South, as it can be set out in the spring and 
gotten into bloom long before frost. Here it seldom stops blooming; east it can be wintered in 
the cellar. 25c. 
Allamanda Hendersonii. A superb greenhouse plant which may be trained either as a 
climber as & shrub. Covers itself completely with immense tubular flowers 5 inches in diameter, 
